Dishant Shah

Dishant Shah was a Republican politician from Virginia.

Biography
Dishant Shah was born in Gujarat, India to a Jain family, and he immigrated to the United States at the age of 16. His family settled in Connecticut, where they lived a working-class lifestyle, and Dishant studied for 14 years to become a brain and spine physician. He moved to Richmond, Virginia in 2006 towards the end of his medical studies, and he founded a teleradiology startup. Shah became active with Republican politics, serving as a magisterial district chair for the Three Chopt district of Henrico County in 2018. He supported the Tea Party movement and the Tea Party-backed congressman Dave Brat, who lost for re-election in 2018. In 2019, Shah ran for the Henrico Country Board of Supervisors, challenging the Republican incumbent Thomas M. Branin.